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MCollective Exim Control

One of the main things that got me intrigued about MCollective was the way in which R.I. controls Exim across multiple datacentres with a nice rdialog interface.

I’ve now got the mc-eximctl client working on Ubuntu Lucid using the following steps:

Update!

Since I first published the article below, I have updated my puppet manifests on GitHub to enable you to place all the server side stuff in a single directory and have it rolled out to all your servers. The client side instructions below still apply…

Installation instructions for mc-eximctl client and server when not using puppet.